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The Middle East Institute of Columbia University, founded in 1954, has
helped to set the national pace in developing an interdisciplinary
approach to the study of the Middle East from the rise of Islam to the
present, with a primary focus on the 19th and 20th centuries. Fostering
an inter-regional and multi-disciplinary approach to the region, the
Institute focuses on the Arab countries, Armenia, Iran, Israel, Turkey,
Central Asia, and Muslim Diaspora communities.
The Institute sponsors approximately 30 lunch-time talks per year on
topics ranging from art and literature to current events, hosts
conferences, and provides a neutral atmosphere for scholarly and student
exchanges of views on issues concerning the Middle East, North Africa,
and Central Asia. It offers courses and outreach seminars to teachers
and adult education groups, briefs journalists, and generally acts as a
clearing-house for requests for information on the region and its
peoples by the media, educational professionals, and the interested
public, drawing upon the expertise of its own staff and the faculty of
the School of International and Public Affairs and Columbia University.
Middle East Institute of Columbia University
Events – FALL 2009
- Thursday, September 17, 2009
Brown Bag Lecture Series: The New Silk Road: How a Rising Arab World is Turning Away from the West and Rediscovering China with Ben Simpfendorfer
Time: 12:00 noon—1:30 pm
Location: International Affairs Building, 9th Floor - 918
Co-sponsor: Weatherhead East Asian Institute
- Friday, September 18th 2009
"A Conversation with Professor Haggai Ram"
Author of: "Iranophobia: The Logic of an Israeli Obsession"
Time: 11am-1pm
Location: Kent Hall, 628
- Thursday, September 24, 2009
"Israel & Palestine: Perspectives on the Past and Prospects for the Future" with Avi Shlaim and Rashid Khalidi
Time: 12-2pm
Location: International Affairs Building, 1501
Co-sponsor: The Center for International History
- Friday, September 25, 2009
UNRWA and Palestine refugees: Drawing Lessons from 60 Years of Service
Time: 1:30-5 pm
Location: Casa Italiana, Columbia University
1161 Amsterdam Avenue, between 116th and 118th Streets
- Friday, September 25, 2009
"Iranian Cinema: A History of the Senses" with Negar Mottahedeh
Time: 2pm
Location: Dodge Hall, Room 508
Co-Sponsor: The SoA Film Division
- Tuesday, October 6, 2009
POLITICS AND VIOLENCE IN ISRAEL/PALESTINE: PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE
with Lev Luis Grinberg, Ben Gurion University, Israel
Time: 2:00 to 3:30 p.m.
Location: 513 Fayerweather Hall
Co-sponsored by: Institute for Israel & Jewish Studies and the Department of Sociology
- Wednesday, October 7, 2009
Searching for Fatima: An Evening of Literature and Politics with Ghada Karmi
Time: 7pm
Location: Earl Hall Auditorium, 3rd Floor
Directions: (2980 Broadway MC 2008, Columbia University)
Co-sponsored by: Adalah-New York, The Muslim Students' Association, The Arab Students’ Association at SIPA
- Thursday, October 8, 2009
Aftermath Of The Russian-Georgian War: Implications For Internal And External Actors
A Lecture by Dr. Gayane Novikova
Time: 6:30 p.m.
Location: Lindsay Rogers Common Room, International Affairs Building (Room 707), Columbia Univ., 420 West 118th Street, New York, NY
Co-sponsored by: The Armenian Center At Columbia University The Department Of Middle Eastern, South Asian And African Studies (Mesaas) At Columbia University And The National Association For Armenian Studies And Research
- Monday, October 12, 2009
"A Brown Bag Lecture Series Presents: "A Common Word" -- A Muslim Inter Faith Initiative Goes Global"
with Abdallah Schleifer
Time: 12:30-2pm
Location: 207 Knox Hall
- Wednesday, October 21, 2009
"Murder in the Name of Honour"
with Rana Husseini
Time: 12:30-2pm
Location: International Affairs Building, 1512
- Thursday, October 22, 2009
"Kurt Acilimi: The 'Kurdish Opening' in Turkey"
with Dr. Kerim Yildiz
Time: 12:30-2pm
Location: Knox Hall, 208
CANCELLED
- Wednesday, October 28th 2009
The Trail Of Blood: The Search In Lebanon and Iraq for an Intercommunal National System with Hanna Ziadeh
Time: 12:15pm
Location: 801 International Affairs Building
Co-sponsored by: The Center for the Study of Human Rights
- Wednesday, October 28th 2009
"A Conversation with Alia Malek"
Author of "A Country Called Amreeka"
Time: 6:30-8:30pm
Location: International Affairs Building, Room 707
Co-Sponsored by: ArteEast
- Thursday, October 29th
"Antagonistic Tolerance: Competitive Sharing of Religious Sites in the Balkans & Turkey"
with Robert M. Hayden
Time: 6-7:30pm
Location: 1219 International Affairs Building
Co-sponsored by: The Harriman Institute
- Wednesday & Thursday, November 4th and 5th
Workshop: Sharia and the State
Time: Nov 4th from 6-9pm
November 5th from 9am-1pm
Location: 509 Knox Hall
Co-sponsored by: The Weatherhead Institute
- Thursday, November 5
A Brown Bag Lecture Series presents Yakov Rabkin: Zionist Opposition to Israel
Time: 12:30-2pm
Location: 208 Knox Hall
- Thursday, November 5th
Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions Against Israel
A debate between Omar Barghouti and George Fletcher
Time: 7 PM
Location: Columbia University,
International Affairs Building, Altschul Hall, Room 417
- Friday-Saturday, November 6-7, 2009
Islam, Sufism, and the Heart of Compassion: Living the Teachings of Muhyiddin Ibn 'Arabi
Location: Riverside Church of New York
Directions: 91 Claremont Avenue
Co-sponsored by: The New York Open Center, The Muhyiddin Ibn 'Arabi Society, Riverside Church, WBAI 99.5 FM
To register please contact the registration office at:
The Open Center
212.219.2527 ext 2
mention that you are CU student
Please indicate which workshops you are most interested in.
Only 30 seats available to students
- Friday, November 6, 2009
A Brown Bag Lecture Series Presents: Dr. Reinhard Eroes
AFGHANISTAN AND THE WEST AFTER EIGHT YEARS: WHICH WAR ARE WE FIGHTING
Time: 12:30-2pm
Location: 207 Knox Hall
- Saturday, November 7, 2009
"Bab 'Aziz: The Prince Who Contemplated His Soul"
Time: 8-10pm
Location: International Affairs Building, Altschuhl Auditorium
Directions: 420 W. 118th St.
Cost: $9, (Students Free)
To register please contact the registration office at The Open Center
212.219.2527 ext 2
mention that you are CU student
- Monday, November 9, 2009
"Goldstone's Mistake" with Amira Hass
Time: 12-2pm
Location: 207 Knox Hall
- Thursday, November 12, 2009
Young women in Riyadh: Between Transgressions of Islamic rules and Consumerist Norms A Brown Bag Lecture with Amelie Le Renard
Time: 12:30-2pm
Location: 208 Knox Hall
- Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Unraveling Layers of Gendered Silencing: Converted Armenian Survivors of the 1915 Catastrophe
with Prof. Ayse Gul Altinay
Time: 6:30pm
Location: Lindsay Rogers room (IAB 707)
Co-sponsored by: MEALAC
- Friday, November 20, 2009
The Topography of Nationalism in Turkey: Actors, Discourses and the Struggle for Hegemony with Professor Umut zkirimli
Time: 12.00 -1:30 pm
Location: Knox Hall, Room 208
- Monday, November 23, 2009
The Middle East Insitute presents the lecture series: "Iraq's Transition to Democracy"
with H.E. Amassador Hamid al-Bayati
Time: 12-2pm
Location: International Affairs Building, Room 1501
Co-sponsored by: The School of International and Public Affairs
- Monday, November 23, 2009
The Sights and Sounds of Muslims: Unity through Diversity" An Eid ul-Adha Banquet
Time: 6:45pm
Location: Roone Arledge auditorium
Co-sponsored by: Columbia University Muslim Students Association
- Monday, November 30, 2009
"From American Protestant Missionaries in the Ottoman Empire to New Evangelicals in Today's Turkey"
A Brown Bag Lecture with Devrim Umit
Time: 12:30-2pm
Location: 207 Knox Hall
- Wednesday, December 2, 2009
"Targeting the Symbols of the Baathist Era: Implications for Social Cohesion and National Identity in Iraq
A brown bag lecture with Benjamin Isakhan
Time: 12:30-2pm
Location: 207 Knox
- Saturday, December 5, 2009
Iran After The Election
Time: 8:30 am - 7:00 pm
Location: Columbia University, International Affairs Building Altschul Auditorium, room 417
Register here
Past MEI Events
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